The Millennium City, which houses many world class healthcare facilities, is poised to become a global medical destination. Divya Sethi reports.

The Millennium City, which houses many world class healthcare facilities, is poised to become a global medical destination.

Although the health department had failed to prevent the outbreak of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases in the last year, the authorities are hopeful that things would change for the better in 2012.

“Medical tourism is growing at the rate of 30% annually. This year nearly 1.5 lakh patients visited India. Gurgaon in the national capital region gets one third of the total international patients,” said Dr Avdesh Mehta, who runs medical tourism company Med Safe Trip.